From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 13:42:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F6816A424 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:42:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: from ecluster6.tls.net (ecluster6.tls.net [65.196.224.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3980143D5A for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:42:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: (qmail 63333 invoked by uid 89); 29 Nov 2005 13:42:12 -0000 Received: from 64-184-8-239.bb.hrtc.net (HELO ?192.168.0.103?) (ldg%tls.net@64.184.8.239) by auth-ecluster6.tls.net with SMTP; 29 Nov 2005 13:42:12 -0000 Message-ID: <438C5AB0.70009@pixelhammer.com> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:42:08 -0500 From: DAve User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20051129060512.GA10583@thought.org> <200511282215.08918.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <20051129065126.GA10783@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20051129065126.GA10783@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Waaaaay OT, sorry. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:42:48 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:15:06PM -0800, Vizion wrote: > >>On Monday 28 November 2005 22:05, the author Gary Kline contributed to the >>dialogue on- >> Waaaaay OT, sorry.: >> >> >>> Folks, >>> >>> This is one of my more obscure questions and involves scanning >>> not paper but something they used to store books, magazines, >>> and newspapers--before the computer age. It is called a >>> microfiche (or fiche). A friend got a copy of a rare >>> out-of-print, not-for-sale book on microfiche. We're looking >>> for some means of scanning this film into a scanner with >>> OCR. So far, he has tried a camera with 8G memory. No joy, >>> the scanner sees garbage. Anybody out there ever have anything >>> like this prob? The book is from 1913 so it is well in the >>> public domain. I've already written Google; zero response. >>> >>> I want to get this book up on my site, fully HTML it so that >>> everybody has the opportunity to ready it ... . >>> >>> thanks for any insights, >>> >>> gary >> >>Its a long time since I have handled microfiche but my guess is you will need >>to mount your camera onto a microfiche reader or a microscope. The >>resolution of a microfiche image is really high - far higher than the camera >>you are using so I think you may need something to enlarge the image for you >>to photograph. >> >>my two pennorth >> >>david >> > > > Microscope; that never cross my mind. I think my pal took stuff > to the main library one night and tried capturing the data from > the reader. Not very successful; I don't know the details. > (We are around 1200 miles apart.) Any ballpark SWAG what power > lens might work here? I only touched m'fiche one time ever, so > have no idea. Money is an issue since there are 400+ pages. > > > gary > > Have you given any thought to using an overhead projector? Possibly a slide projector? Depends on the fiche size I'd think, but you could then make an image on a wall/screen that could be photographed. Also, I remember using my fathers extension tubes on his old Cannon to copy slides and photograph postage stamps. It was amazing the clarity I got. A small stamp could fill a 35mm frame. DAve